11-10-05 - Construction of Pebble Beach Community Services District (PBCSD) improvements to the FOREST LAKE RESERVOIR for RECLAIMED WATER is progressing on schedule. It is expected the reservoir will be read to collect water during the 2005-06 rainy season.

10-08-05 - Pebble Beach Community Services District's 22-acre FOREST LAKE RESERVOIR project for UPGRADING the reservoir for RECLAIMED WATER is about half completed. The reservoir is located northeast of Lopez Road, west of Congress Road, near Forest Lake Road.

The reservoir will be ready to accept recycled water from the Carmel Wastewater plant in December 2005 or January 2006. However, production of improved higher-quality reclaimed water is not expected to be available for Forest golf courses and athletic fields until the fall of 2007 when the Carmel Area Wastewater District micro-filtration/reverse osmosis treatment facilities are completed. Construction of any of P.B. Co.'s proposed future new major development projects in the Forest are contingent on having this improved reclaimed water available.

12-02-04
- Three government Agencies,
the Carmel Area Wastewater District (CAW), Monterey
Peninsula Water Management District (MPWMD), and Pebble
Beach Community Services District
(PBCSD),
issued a Joint Press Release today outlining the recent
approval of new agreements that will enable a significant
expansion of the Recycled Water Project (Phase II Plan) for
Del Monte Forest golf courses. These agencies, known as the
Independent Recycled Water Users Group (IRWUG), have worked
several months with local users of reclaimed water. The goal
is to have an expanded system for the golf courses in the
Forest that will be fully dependent on recycled water. The
currently-estimated 22 to 24 million dollars will be funded
by the sale of Pebble Beach Co.'s portion of its legal Water
Entitlement to Del Monte Forest residential property
owners.

October
2004 -Summary of action being taken on improving the
Wastewater Reclamation Plant/System for Del Monte Forest.
The Independent Reclaimed Water Users Group (IRWUG) is
working with Pebble Beach Co., Carmel Area Wastewater
District, Pebble Beach Community Services District and the
Monterey Peninsula Water Management District amended
Agreements for sale (or purchase by Golf Club users) of
improved recycled water.

10-22-04
- Mark Stilwell, Pebble Beach Company Executive Vice
President, reported, at the Pebble Beach Community Services
District meeting on September 24 that Forest property owners
are responding to their September 2004 letter outlining how
owners may subscribe to a plan which allows them to buy
potable water from PB Co.'s allotment of "entitled"
water.

Mr.
Stilwell reported that as of September 10, 2004 $5.0 million
in acre-feet of water rights had been subscribed to by
Forest property owners. He indicated that he is receiving
approximately 30 inquiries per day.

This
plan to sell water rights has been initiated by the PB Co.
to help finance the Phase II Improvement of the Wastewater
Reclamation Plant/System.

5-28-04
-
P.B. Co, authorized to sell "entitled" water for between
$150,000 and $175,000 per acre-foot, several times more than
the water district's $20,000 per acre-foot price.
The
Monterey Peninsula Water Management District board approved
by 4-2 an Ordinance, No 109, allowing P.B. Co. to sell 175
acre-feet of their water to raise money to improve the
existing waste water reclamation plant and reopen the Forest
Lake reservoir for storage of reclaimed water.

4-23-04
-Monterey
Peninsula Water Management District Board reviewed the
proposed Ordinance # 109 at the April 22nd meeting covering
an Agreement between the District and PB Co. to permit the
sale of "entitled water" to Forest property owners.

This
Ordinance will be considered again for adoption at the MPWMD
May 27th special meeting.The
revenue from this sales plan will be used to finance
improvements to the existing inadequate Wastewater
Reclamation System for the Del Monte Forest. Three other
separate agreements with organizations in the Forest that
now use reclaimed water for golf courses will also be
considered at the May 27th meeting. The MPWMD website,
www.mpwmd.dst.ca.us
will include details of this Ordinance and Agreements on May
14, 2004.

December
16, 2003 - New Monterey Peninsula Water Management District
Board of Directors voted unanimously on Dec. 15th to
reconsider Pebble Beach Co.'s plan to sell "entitled" water
to finance improvements to existing WASTEWATER RECLAMATION
SYSTEM for Del Monte Forest.

The plan,
covered by a proposed new Ordinance # 109, was approved by
the old Board members last month, but it contained several
items that were not acceptable to the PB Co. and a group of
independent golf course owners in Pebble Beach that need
improved recycled water.

Some of the
unacceptable restrictions in the proposed Ordinance
are:

Conditions
allowing emergency use of fresh water in case the
recycling system fails

Giving
the gold course owners less time to use fresh water than
they desire

Proposed
accounting system for monitoring water use by those who
purchase the water rights sold by PB Co.

The proposed
plan will be reviewed in March, 2004 after the district's
staff works out problem issues with PB Co, the Carmel Area
Wastewater district and the groups of independent golf
course owners in Pebble Beach.

November
18, 2003 -MPWMD
Directors delayed approving a new Ordance No. 109 covering
Pebble Beach Co's. proposal to sell "entitled" water and
finance construction of improvements to existing Wastewater
Reclamation project until their next meeting on Monday,
November 24, 2003.

The
proposal allows Pebble Beach Company to sell their
"entitled" water to residential property owners only in Del
Monte Forest. The funds will be used to finance the
construction of the Phase II Improvements to the Carmel Area
Watewater District/Pebble Beach Community Services District
Recycled Water Reclamation Project, including the use of the
Forest Lake reservoir.

October
20, 2003 -Water
Board (MPWMD) OKs Pebble Beach Co's. proposal to sell
"entitled" water and finance construction of improvements to
existing Wastewater Reclamation project. New Ordinance No.
109 expected to become law at MPWMD meeting on November
17th.

The
proposal allows Pebble Beach Company to sell their
"entitled" water to residential property owners only in Del
Monte Forest. The funds will be used to finance the
construction of the Phase II Improvements to the Carmel Area
Watewater District/Pebble Beach Community Services District
Recycled Water Reclamation Project.

For
details on the October 20, 2003 MPWMD meeting, read the
October 21, 2003 story in the Monterey Herald.

September16,
2003 - PB
Co's plan to sell "entitled" water
- Monterey Peninsula Water Management District Board of
Directors voted to postpone taking action on Pebble Beach
Co.'s proposal to sell "entitled"water to residential
properties throughout Del Monte Forest at $150,000 an
acre-foot to finance construction of the Phase II
Improvements to the Carmel Area Wastewater District/Pebble
Beach Community Services District Recycled Water Reclamation
Project. The first reading of Ordinance No. 109 was
continued to their October 20, 2003 meeting.

For more
information, read "Water sale to P.B. property owners could
finance reclamation project" in the October 17, 2003 issue
of The Carmel Pine Cone

Read
these original
MPWMD legal documentsposted on this website.

Ordinance
109defining
legal conditions for financing and sale,
including amount of water entitlement remaining
unused by Pebble Beach
Company.

For more on
this proposal read the September 16, 2003 Monterey Herald
new story "Pebble Beach water system upgrades could allow
new homes, renovations".

The District
Staff met in October with the organizations, agencies and
companies involved with the planned "Phase II
Improvements to the Wastewater Reclamation Project." The
Pebble Beach Company's request for approval to sell
"entitled" water at $150,000 an acre-foot to finance the
reclamation project improvements was discussed at this
meeting.

The staff has
now learned that Pebble Beach Company will soon present a
new revised request/proposal to the MPWMD for financing the
improvements required to permit the reclamation system to
produce a new,increased amount of acceptable reclaimed water
for golf courses and recreation areas in Del Monte
Forest.

Details of
the new proposal and the MPWMD action on this project will
be posted on this website when made available by the
District Staff.

Readers of
this information may wish to provide the Monterey Peninsula
Water Management District Directors with their views on this
unusual, complex proposal to sell this water at
http://www.mpwmd.dst.ca.us/

September
29, 2003 -Where
Will The Funds Flow?-
"...The Forest reclamation project... raises some
questions that must be addressed. Does the sale represent
an inequity for those residents currently on the Cal-Am
waiting list?"

March
8, 2002 - Entitling
water to P.B. Co.
- "If
there was no connection between the 'entitlement water'
and the actual production of reclaimed water, what was
the justification for the entitlement?"

March
6, 2002- Pebble
Beach Water Plan-
"The net result would be more households dependent on the
same amount of water with no additional water
supplies."

January
6, 2002 -
Commentary - "P.B.
Co. Proposal would help
taxpayers"
- At
no expense to the taxpayer a $33 million dollar bond was
sold to cover the cost of the reclamation project to
irrigate the golf courses. Repayment of the bonds was
guaranteed by the Pebble Beach company in return for
which it was allocated approximately one-half of the
potable water saved for its future water use within the
Forest.

"Water
district to weigh P.B.
plan"-
Monterey
County Herald, January 31,
2002"The
Pebble Beach company's request for permission to sell 100
acre-feet of 'entitled' water at $150,000 per acre-foot
to finance improvements to a water reclamation system
will be reviewed by the Board's Water Demand
Committee."

"P.B.
offers details of water proposal"- Monterey County Herald, December 27, 2001"The proposal includes a number of conditions that
would have to be approved by <a majority vote of>
the Peninsula water board as would the basic concepts of
releasing water from the residential lots it is currently
tied to."

"Water
deal in the works"-
Monterey
County Herald, November 25,
2001"In
the past 12 months, the Del Monte Forest golf courses and
Stevenson school fields have used reclaimed water along
with 374 acre-feet of Cal-Am tap water." <This 374
acre-feet of tap water computes to be enough for 1,496
average homes within the peninsula water district > --
Ed>